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k GURTAIN SHADE FIXTURE. No. 368,740. Patented Aug. 23, 1887.

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ROBERT P. TRIMBLE, on onneon, MISSOURI.

CURTAIN SHADE FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,740, dated August 23, 1887.

Application filed January 12. 1887. Serial No. 224,148. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT P. TRIMBLE, of Oregon, in the county of Holt and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Curtain or Shade Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention isin the nature of an improved fixture for sustaining the curtain-shade roller and lambrequinrod at the upper part of the window in such a manner as to permit the same to be quickly applied or removed and adjusted higher or lower, as may be required for purposes of better ventilation.

Figure l is a perspective view of the window-shade fixture applied to the window. Fig. 2 is a side view of the bracket, partly in section; Fig. 3, a rear view of the bracket. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective of the bracket and lambrequin-hook.

In the drawings, It It represent two metal brackets, one of which, R, has the open notch a and the other the hole a to hold the journals of the curtain-shade rollers, as usual. These brackets have upon their rear sides dovetail or undercut slats to receive a correspondinglyshaped horizontal slat, B, which extends entirely across the window and connects both brackets. Said brackets may he slid on the slat at will to suit any size window, and after being slid to the place where wanted they are secured to the slat by means of a small screw, b, extending through a hole in the bracket into the slat. The upper rear portion of each bracket is chambered and formed with a downwardly-projecting lug or pin, I, formed in one piece with the bracket, which is so arranged as to pass through the eye of a screweye screwed into the window-frame, and by which the brackets are supported. There may be two or more of these screw-eyes on each side, arranged one above the other.

Into the upper ones the brackets may be in serted when the window is closed at the top, and when the window is to be opened at the top for ventilation the brackets may be transferred to the lower ones to prevent the curtain and lambrequin from being blown about by the wind.

Theouter portion of each bracket is recessed,

with a channel, 0, upon each side, and into these channels, and straddling the web portion between, is fitted the forked lower end of the lambrequin hooks D, which are thus mounted upon and made adjustable with the supports of the curtain. These lambrequinhooks extend upwardly and outwardly and terminate in an open fork at the top, in which rests the lambrequin-rod. To prevent scarring the latter this fork has a groove or channel cut in its inner periphery, in which is seated a strip of rubber, leather, or other clas tic substance. These lambrequin-hooks are made separately and may be used or not at will; and it will be seen that in hanging shades or curtains all that it is necessary to do is to screw two screw-eyes into the top of the window-frame to the place where the shade-roller is to be. Then place the brackets, with slat in, over the screw-eye. Then the roller may be placed in, and, if it is desired to use curtains, place the forked lower end of the lambrequinhook D down into the channels 0 upon each side, everything being perfectly secured upon the screw-eyes, and being at the same time easily removed for any purpose. The brackets are preferably made of cast metal, and the lambrequin-hooks may be worked into any ornamental pattern without departing from their utility.

The parts of my invention aresimple, cheap, easily applied or removed,and notlikely to get out of order.

I am aware that it is not new to support the lambrequin-hooks on the curtain-roller brackets, and that these brackets have been sus pended upon connectionsin the window-frame. I am also aware of the construction shown in patent to Greene and Greene, No. 340,439; and I therefore only claim my peculiar construction and arrangement of parts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new isi 1. The combination, with the slat B, of the brackets It, having each on its rear side an undercut slat fitting to and connecting adj ustably the bracket and slat, and said bracket being formed above said slat with a chamber opening on the rear and having a downward ly-projecting lug, P, formed in said chamber straddling the bracket end, and having an I and concealed from View, substantially as and open seat above for the lambrequin-pole, sub- 10 for the purpose described. stantially as shown and described.

2. The bracket R having a bearing a for 5 the roller, and fornied outside of said beairing ROBERT TRIMBLE' with recesses c on opposite sides, in combina- WVitnesses: tion with the lambrequin-hook D, having H. O. SCHMIDT, forked ends below fitting into the recesses and D. W. THUMA. 

